Example sentences for: tantrums

How can you use “tantrums” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her tolerance feeds his tantrums, her servitude his warped sense of self.

  • The candidate's tantrums crystallize his reputation as a straight-talking maverick, while relieving him of the need to take specific positions.

  • Other recent examples include the alleged off-camera tantrums had by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno over the belated discovery of the coffee videos, and yesterday's report about how somebody high up in the White House nearly throttled an ATF agent over the discovery that ATF was letting scads of assault weapons into the country.

  • Morris' descriptions of Clinton's temper tantrums, says Ferguson, make them sound like "the kind normally associated with autistic children--except in the president's case they are overlaid with self-righteousness and megalomania."

  • White Heat features two of Cagney's greatest primal tantrums: in prison, when he finds out that his mother is dead and moans like a maniac; and at a chemical refinery, where he screams, "Top of the world, Ma!"


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